DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 6 (June)

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This week's question is answered by Sean M. Weiss, CCP-P, ACS-EM, CPC, CPC-P CCA-P, vice president and chief compliance officer of DecisionHealth.

Q.  Our lab has a certificate of waiver but Medicare has rejected our use of 87081 (culture screen only) when the doctor collects a culture specimen and uses a culture plate to grow it out. The remittance advice says we are not approved to use this code. How do we get approved or is there another code we should use instead?

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